Referring to James Alex Fields of Toledo, who has been charged with the murder of a 32-year-old woman after he ran his car into a crowd of people, Brown wrote, “The fact that an individual from Ohio is alleged to have traveled to Virginia and committed such an act while attending a white supremacist rally has caused many in my home state, including myself, to question the degree to which domestic terror organizations and hate groups are present and operate in the state of Ohio.”
Fields has been charged with second-degree murder, five counts of malicious wounding and three counts of aggravated malicious wounding. In addition to the death of the young woman, 19 other people were injured during the incident.
Last week, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper warned that “Ohio is unfortunately right in the middle of this problem. I don’t think you can sugarcoat this.”
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